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Sibling<\/strong><\/p>\n I helped my mother pick<\/p>\n ripe gooseberries<\/p>\n loaded with their bitter seeds.<\/p>\n She straightened up<\/p>\n rested her hand on her vast belly –<\/p>\n my sun was blotted out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I saw my mother rushed to hospital<\/p>\n in a screaming ambulance.<\/p>\n Days later she came home<\/p>\n with a red-faced creature<\/p>\n whose siren-shriek<\/p>\n made my milk teeth curl.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I watch my mother wash<\/p>\n mountains of stinking nappies.<\/p>\n So I take the consolation doll<\/p>\n and, with my seaside spade,<\/p>\n bury it under the gooseberry bush –<\/p>\n a trial run for tonight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clare Marsh<\/strong> recently completed an Intermediate Poetry course at UEA\/WCN. She won the Sentinel Annual Short Story competition (2013). Her poem 93442- the Numbers of War<\/em>\u00a0 won a WW1 competition and was shortlisted for the Wells Literary Festival (2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sibling I helped my mother pick ripe gooseberries loaded with their bitter seeds. She straightened up rested her hand on her vast belly – my sun was blotted out. I saw my mother rushed to hospital in a screaming ambulance. Days later she came home with a red-faced creature whose siren-shriek made my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9817,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}